Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 8

Suddenly they felt a pull at the shell; it was torn off, and held in human hands, then slipped into the pocket of a jacket in company with other full pods.

Who acts: peas · What happens: feel, tear off, hold, slip · To what, where: pull, shell, human hands, pocket

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 felt	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pull	det
5	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 torn	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 torn	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 torn	aux:pass
12	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 felt	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 torn	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 held	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 held	cc
16	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 torn	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hands	case
18	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hands	amod
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slipped	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 slipped	advmod
22	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 pocket	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pocket	det
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slipped	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 jacket	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 jacket	det
28	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pocket	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 company	case
30	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slipped	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 pods	case
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pods	amod
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pods	amod
34	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 slipped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	peas = pea	a pull	the shell		suddenly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pull=Theme at shell=Location
2	tear off	past · passive		shell				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hold	participle			human hands			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
4	slip	past	peas = pea not said here		the pocket of a jacket	then	in company; with other full pods	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in company=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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